In the spin-off from CSI: Miami, the third instalment of the CSI franchise follows a team of New York City forensics investigators and police officers headed by tough former Marine Major, Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), and his newest partner, Detective Jo Danville (Sela Ward), an experienced investigator from Washington D.C. whose work is driven by her empathy for the victim. Against a backdrop of simmering ethnic and cultural tensions, Taylor's team immerse themselves within the city's underbelly using high-tech science and their wits to crack the seemingly unsolvable cases of the Big Apple.